Abstract: A frame extender (10) for attachment to a siderail (14) and to a front cross member (16A) of a vehicle frame (12) having a centerline (C) includes a first portion (52) generally parallel with and attached to the siderail. The frame extender (10) also includes a second portion (66) extending generally transversely from the first portion (52) and outwardly from the centerline (C), and a third portion (80) extending from the second portion and generally parallel to the siderail (14). The first portion (52), the second portion (66) and the third portion (80) are formed as a single component.

Abstract: Example embodiments of a diaphragm are shown and described.

Abstract: An inductively-heated applicator system including a heating module and an applicator, such as an applicator pen. The heating module include a dock for seating the applicator. The heating module includes circuitry to selectively generate an electromagnetic field to wirelessly provide energy to the applicator when it is positioned in the dock. The heating module may also include temperature control circuitry to monitor and/or control the temperature of the applicator. The applicator pen includes a heating element that it heated through energy provided by the electromagnetic field. The heating element may be directly inductively heated by the electromagnetic field. The heating element may be a roller element that heats and applies the product. Alternatively, the applicator may include a secondary in which electrical power is induced when the electromagnetic field is present. In this alternative, the power may be applied to the heating element to produce resistive heat.

Abstract: A system for monitoring conditions within a tire (12) including a sensor assembly (14) including a pressure sensor (36), an accelerometer (34), a temperature sensor (32), and a transmitter (40) to transmit signals indicative of current tire conditions. A remote transmitter (22) for actuating a remote keyless entry system (19) emits a signal to actuate a function of the keyless entry system (19) such as unlocking doors (20) of the motor vehicle (10). A receiver assembly (16) includes an amplitude shift keyed receiver (52) and a frequency shift keyed receiver (58) selectively engagable to receive radio frequency transmissions from the tire monitoring system or the remote keyless entry system (19).

Abstract: An electrical adaptor providing access to an electrical receptacle with an object placed in close proximity directly in front of the receptacle. The electrical adaptor having a pair of male connectors with a center line; a pair of female connectors having a center line; the female connectors in electric conductive communication with the male connectors; a rigid single section body having a bend such that the center line of the female conductors is oriented and fixed at an angle of 90° relative to the center line of the male connectors and the center line of the female connectors is oriented and fixed at an angle of 30° to 60° from a plane formed by the male connectors; and the body extending from the male connectors to the female connectors.

Abstract: Various embodiments and methods are disclosed for sheet ejecting in which a claw boost the twain positions and response to engagement of a cam follower with a cam and in which the cam follower is movable between a cam engaging position at a cam disengaging position.

Abstract: An inkjet pen includes an internal ink supply; and at least one datum feature configured to engage and slide over a guide track in a pen carriage during installation of the pen in the carriage. The at least one datum feature is configured to interact with corresponding datum features of the guide track to prevent improper installation of the pen in the carriage.

Abstract: A crosslinking monomer for making a crosslinked polymer, said monomer comprising reactive leaving groups Y and Y1 located on the same or different aryl or heteroaryl groups of the monomer and a structural unit of general formula I: where Ar represents an aryl or heteroaryl group; Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heteroaryl group and where any two of Ar, Ar1 and Ar2 may optionally be linked; Sp represents an optional spacer group; and X represents a crosslinkable group.

Abstract: A printing system includes multiple print units which each have one or more printbar assemblies to transfer an imaging medium onto a print media. An individual print unit can include a heater system to dry the imaging medium transferred onto the print media by the one or more printbar assemblies of the individual print unit. For a printing system with two print units, a first percentage of the imaging medium is transferred onto the print media, the print media is advanced beyond the one or more printbar assemblies of the first print unit, and a first heater system dries the first percentage of the imaging medium. A second percentage of the imaging medium is then transferred onto the print media, the print media is advanced beyond the one or more printbar assemblies of the second print unit, and a second heater system dries the second percentage of the imaging medium.

Abstract: A system for computer device component audit and inventory management operates in a data network and includes an inventory agent installed on a target computer device for detecting and compiling software and hardware inventory data associated with the target device. An inventory-commence message is deployed through an electronic message handling system, operable on the data network, which requests inventory data from the inventory agent which then compiles the inventory data into executable language statements for incorporation into a host database accessible by a client. Multiple reports may be generated regarding the inventory data. Fees may not be charged for aggregate inventory data. The system provides a client with the ability to remotely request, compile, analyze and report inventory data from target devices that do not necessarily have access to the data network at the time of the inventory request.

Abstract: Selective reflective optical apparatus includes a projection screen. The projection screen has structure constructed and arranged to selectively reflect only incident optical energy of a predetermined number of narrow bands of optical wavelength regions.

Abstract: A system and method to allow backup or alternate fluid flow routes around malfunctioning components using removable, modular component sets. In one exemplary embodiment, an ROV establishes a backup hydraulic flow to a BOP function by attaching one end of a hose to a modular valve block and the other end to an intervention shuttle valve, thus circumventing and isolating malfunctioning components. A compound intervention shuttle valve is provided that comprises first and second primary inlets, first and second secondary inlets, and an outlet. A modular valve block is provided that comprises a directional control valve, a pilot valve, a manifold pressure regulator, a pilot pressure regulator, stab type hydraulic connections and an electrical wet-make connection.

Abstract: A food processing system includes a food processing chamber for processing a food product, such as meat products such as hot dogs, sausages, poultry, fish, and other food items. A high speed serial to parallel loading station delivery system is provided. The food product is loaded onto a conveyor in the processing chamber having a plurality of two-piece food product cradles having openings receiving the food product at the loading station and discharging the food product at the unloading station and having gaps between food product carriers distally oppositely spaced from the openings and defining food product cavities therebetween, the width of the openings varying during traversal of the conveyor through the chamber from the loading to the unloading stations.

Abstract: A frame extender (10) for attachment to a siderail (14) and to a front cross member (16A) of a vehicle frame (12) having a centerline (C) includes a first portion (52) generally parallel with and attached to the siderail. The frame extender (10) also includes a second portion (66) extending generally transversely from the first portion (52) and outwardly from the centerline (C), and a third portion (80) extending from the second portion and generally parallel to the siderail (14). The first portion (52), the second portion (66) and the third portion (80) are formed as a single component.

Abstract: Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for providing a media pick assembly with a motorized carriage.

Abstract: An inkjet pen includes an internal ink supply; and at least one datum feature configured to engage and slide over a guide track in a pen carriage during installation of the pen in the carriage. The at least one datum feature is configured to interact with corresponding datum features of the guide track to prevent improper installation of the pen in the carriage.

Abstract: An inkjet printer assembly includes an inkjet carriage assembly having a plurality of side walls and an end wall, the inkjet carriage assembly including a pen guide track extruding from at least one of the side walls and a plurality of datum features formed in the inkjet carriage assembly, and an inkjet dispenser pen having a body, the inkjet dispenser including one or more datum extrusions formed on the body, wherein the one or more datum extrusions are associated with the datum features to assure proper loading of the inkjet dispenser pen into the inkjet carriage assembly.

Abstract: An insulated beverage container with an integrated sound producing device wherein the sounds emitted from the sound producing device are compatible with images, advertisements or other materials displayed on the surface of the insulated beverage container. The sound emitting device is configured to store and then emit, upon actuation by a user, predetermined sounds over a specific length of time. While the sound emitting insulated beverage container is intended as a novelty device, it can be used for advertisements and in marketing by associating specific sounds with advertisement displayed on the outer surface of the container.

Abstract: A food processing system includes a food processing chamber for processing a food product, such as meat products such as hot dogs, sausages, poultry, fish, and other food items. A high speed serial to parallel loading station delivery system is provided. The food product is loaded onto a conveyor in the processing chamber having a plurality of two-piece food product cradles having openings receiving the food product at the loading station and discharging the food product at the unloading station and having gaps between food product carriers distally oppositely spaced from the openings and defining food product cavities therebetween, the width of the openings varying during traversal of the conveyor through the chamber from the loading to the unloading stations.

Abstract: A difference in feed roller diameter from one printer to another causes a media to advance by a different amount for a given rotation of a drive shaft to which the feed roller is coupled. Such variation in advance distance is a linefeed error. Mean linefeed error is determined and corrected by printing a test plot having several areas. Each area is formed of the same image pattern, but is printed at a different linefeed error adjustment to compensate for mean linefeed error. The different adjustments are prescribed and span a typical compensation range for a given print engine model. The different adjustment factors cause banding to occur in some areas. The user picks one of the test pattern areas which has the highest print quality (i.e., least or no banding). The linefeed adjustment factor corresponding to such area is used for normal printing.